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Gratitude and Joy by Bobby Schuller Gratitude and Joy By Bobby Schuller I want to encourage you to remember the Lord. In our lives, through good and bad, it’s so good to remember the Lord, and to remember his character, and to remember that he loves you, that he’s in covenant with you, that he’s faithful to that covenant, and that you can trust him. So much of living a joyful life is remembering the Lord, and particularly remembering him when things go good. I know for me I turn to the Lord when things go bad. Of course I do. They say there’s no atheists in a foxhole, right? When things get rough and tough, we turn to the Lord and we ask for help, and we should, and that’s good. But what about when things are going really well. What about in the day-to-day things? I think it’s so important to remember the Lord in everything we do. To be grateful people. A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles. A grateful heart just invites so much favor, breakthrough, vision, positivity, connections. A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles. There’s something about grateful people that just draw health, wealth, joy, life, they just draw it to themselves, and that’s why I want you to be a grateful person because gratitude will just open up the door in your life so much. And you are a grateful person, and I’m grateful for you. When you’re grateful, I believe you invite favor, not only with God, but with other people, God and man. When we’re grateful, it changes the way we view not only our circumstance, it changes the way we view our story. Many of us who have a great present kind of hate our past. We look back at our adversity and our challenges, or maybe we look at our family or some way that we were mistreated, or somebody that robbed us in our business, or sued us, or insulted us, or offended us. And the more we dwell on those things and feel embittered by those things, the more it affects our present. But when we look back at our lives and from our bones we just say thank you, even in the midst of adversity, thank you that you carried me through. Thank you that you gave me everything I needed to be where I am today. Thank you for all the good, wonderful things in the midst of the suffering. When we begin to be grateful people, we reframe our story, not as a tragedy, but as a crucible that made it you, the fantastic person you are. You wouldn’t be who you are without your adversity. And so we, you know, God doesn’t hurt people. If you’re sick, God didn’t make you sick. But we can thank God that no matter what the world or the devil or whatever throws at us, he remembers his covenant, he is good, he will get you through. So you can thank him today for the little things, and you can thank him today that he’s got you this far because you’ve only seen just the beginning. Your future is so bright and you can thank God for that, too. When we become grateful people, it’s like heaven just opens up to our hearts and our lives and we create a whole new paradigm when we see our story through the lens of gratitude versus the lens of being a victim, and many of you have been victims. When we see our past through the lens of gratitude instead of the lens of regret, or embitterment, but we say thank you God, you’ve got me this far and my future is bright, we just get a fresh vision for our future. Let me say it this way: when you get a fresh vision for your past, you get a fresh vision for your future. The better you see your past, the better you see your future. And as we live today in this moment with gratitude, you just begin to just see clearer and to see everything that’s possible. There’s so much that’s possible, but sometimes we’re blind to it because of our grief or our pain or our sickness. Move from that place into gratitude. I know there have been a lot of studies on happiness or joy or just a full life. I’ve cited a number of studies on this, but one of the things that’s kind of baffled scientists is that it seems that people seem to have kind of fixed position of happiness. Most people do. And it’s like this is kind of where your default is. And for most people, something really great circumstantially happens. Let’s just say you win the lottery, and I hope you do. Remember to tithe. If you win the lottery, you’re going to be elated for, and the number is usually about six months. And what typically happens, as Nietzsche said the human being is someone who can get used to anything. You eventually come back to that old point of happiness you were, and it’s usually about six months prior. The other happens, as well. Studies have shown that if something terrible happens to you, you go blind or you have some major health thing that’s permanent, or you lose your business or something, you usually have about six months of despair, depression, anger, frustration, but usually after about six months or so, you go back to that original place of happiness. Isn’t that bizarre? And one of the things that scientists have asked is how do we move that needle? And they’ve only found one way to move that needle permanently, and I’ve cited this before, but this is from Robert Edmonds, I believe out of the University of Michigan professor, and this was also cited by Dr. Ben-Shahar out of Harvard. The one thing is regular practices of gratitude; people making lists or doing something in which they are saying or writing down how they’re grateful. And they’ve actually shown that doing that moves your needle permanently in a happy direction. In my life, as I’ve seen, you know one of the great things about being a pastor is that you can see all sorts of people from the very poorest to the very richest, all races and backgrounds, multiple nationalities, we’re an international ministry, too, and you just see patterns form. And one of the things that you notice is how much people’s mental perspective has a lot to do with the outcome of their life. And very often, especially the self made, a lot of the wealthy people that have succeeded or people have done really well in other areas of ministry or things like that, you often find that they’re just grateful people. And it’s easy to say well that’s post hawk. Obviously they’re grateful. Things are going great for them. But one of the things I’ve noticed is with a lot of the successful people I’ve seen in life, they tend to have a sort of supernatural resilience that seems to be rooted in positivity and gratitude. That I’ve just seen for many of them, and not all of them, and this is conjecture, just my own observation, right? It’s just an opinion. I see that when these people go through adversity, i.e. terrible sickness, or they lose everything: their whole business, they still have this posture of gratitude; to others, to God, and they’re not Pollyanna but I just see how people that are like super human grateful tend to have just so much, the world would say, luck. Grateful people in every field, in every area of life, grateful people are a magnet for miracles; a magnet for success; a magnet for connections. There’s something about a heart that is thankful to God and thankful to others that just invites blessing. It’s one of the smartest, easiest things you can do to make your life better today. It is a no brainer. As a pastor, I think the most important reason we should be grateful people, though, I think being grateful connects our heart to God. I still remember the first time I went to Yosemite and just looking around. I went there because one of my brother’s closest friends, who was an atheist, said, ‘I don’t believe in God. That’s stupid. Unless I go to Yosemite, then I think well maybe.’ And there are these experiences: Yosemite, maybe you’ve been out just for a beautiful walk, or you’ve been up in the mountains as its snowing, or to the ocean at sunset, and you just feel thankful to who? Well yes, if you believe in God. And actually C.S. Lewis, I think quoting Chesterton, said ‘one of the hardest things in the life of an atheist is when you feel incredibly thankful but you have no one to thank.’ You know C.S. Lewis was an atheist and converted to Christianity as a Oxford Don, very bright, of course. But I think one of the reasons as Christians we ought to continue to thank God even for the little things, or to be thankful to God is that it like reinforces intimacy with the Holy Spirit.
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